Hollywood Music

Music received its first special award when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences handed out its annual Oscars last week (see p. 68). The special award went to Conductor Leopold Stokowski, for "the creation of a new form of visualized music" in Walt Disney's Fantasia, and it highlighted both the growing influence of Hollywood as a music capital and Hollywood's increasing dependence on music. Other musician winners:

> Jerome Kern, whose tune, The Last Time I Saw Paris, was judged the best song in 1941 films (actually Hollywood had its nerve in claiming this nostalgic hit, since it was published without movie sponsorship a full year before it was borrowed for Lady Be Good).

> Bernard Herrmann, for the best scoring of a dramatic picture in All That Money Can Buy. His only previous movie music was for Orson Welles's Citizen Kane.

> Songwriters Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace for the best scoring of a musical picture in Walt Disney's Dumbo. Churchill had failed to equal his earlier Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? and Heigh Ho, but had turned out three pleasant tunes--Baby Mine, Casey Junior, Look Out for Mister Stork. Wallace's best number was When I See an Elephant Fly.

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